Belgian court rules against Google over copyright — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers, imperilling one of the web search leader's most popular services if other courts follow suit.

Google Loses In Belgium Newspaper Case — A Belgium court has found that Google did violate copyright when including material from several Belgian newspapers in its search index. Google will have to pay a $4.4 million fine, but the ruling is far more positive for the company.

RIAA Adopts New Policy, offers "Pre-Doe settlement option" if ISP Holds Logs Longer, Asks ISP's to Correct Identification Mistakes — The RIAA has sent out a letter to ISP's attempting to change its prelitigation policies: — Letter from RIAA to ISP's* — While we have not had time to analyse …

Social-Networking Sites Open Up — Facebook, Friendster, and others are starting to let third-party developers build new features to attract more users—and profits — Dom Tolli envisions a day when people will be able to push a few buttons on their cell phone and post a list …

Google Flags Pages that Install Malicious Software — I mentioned in August last year that Google started to show malware warnings if you click on a search result from a harmful site. Now Google shows a message below the title of a search result: "This site may harm your computer."

Newspapers beating TV sites to video revenue — Borrell Associates is releasing a new report today that reveals that newspaper sites grossed $81 million in local video advertising in 2006, compared to $32 million for local TV sites. "Print media are using the internet as a crossover platform …

Pirates of the Multiplex — Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay Web site for illegal distribution of video files. But if Hollywood wants to stop online pirates—who cost the industry some $7 billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat them.

Daylight Saving Time 2007 Update — Updating Windows Mobile-powered devices for the new Daylight Saving Time — Congress has changed the dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the United States starting in 2007. Canada has adopted similar DST dates. These changes could cause clocks …

Messenger and Mail...together at last! — At the Web 2.0 conference in November, we took the wraps off of one of our newest, coolest features: Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. But, that was just a preview of what was to come. Today, we will start to release this exciting new feature.

Yahoo Music: Santa Claus will have DRM-free music in his sleigh — DRMed music has been the talk of the town for the last week, due in no small part to Steve Jobs' well-known missive on the topic. Another music store head has weighed in on the subject, predicting that his store will be mostly DRM-free by Christmas.

FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors? — When I added FilmLoop to the TechCrunch DeadPool last month based on rumors of mass layoffs, it was clear there was more to the story. The thirty person company had raised $11.5 million in capital and by any calculation should have still had at least $3 - $5 million left in the bank.

StumbleUpon brings video to the Wii — Web site discovery and recommendation site StumbleUpon has announced an update to its Stumble Video product, enabling owners of Nintendo's Wii to find video content and watch it on the popular game console. — StumbleUpon, which claims nearly 2 million …